Stuart smithers (8 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

First edition. Contains "Bodies of Sleep, Garments of Skins" by Stuart Smithers - Ancient views of the relationship between body and soul, "Dangerous Outfits" by Nouk Bassomb - Be careful where you go in borrowed clothes, "Pascal's Jacket" by Noelle Oxenhandler - A meditation on hiddenness, "Every Robe He Dons Becomes Him" by Shawkat M. Toorawa - Images of clothing in the Islamic tradition, "The Fabric of Independence" by Susan Bean - The communicative power of Mahatma Gandhi's costume, "Trying on a Hat" by Richard Lewis - Children's dress-ups, "A Glorious Robe" by Kathleen Norris - The Benedictine clothing ceremony, "The Mystery of the Veil" by Frithjof Schuon - The garment that conceals and reveals, "The Dancer's Sleeve" by Edwin Bernbaum - Tibetan Mani Rimdu dance ritual, "Divine Clothing" by Joseph Wolf - Mystical Judaic versions of the garment metaphor, "Before All This" by Gunilla Norris - How traditional costume defines our roots, "The Cycle of Sex" by Rodney Collin - Alternating masculine and feminine ages, "The Decorated Body" by France Borel - The human body as a product of culture, "Clothed in the Beauty of Possibility" by Richard Wentz - How what we wear reveals who we are, "Garments of Voice" by Gail Rossi and Sun Bingshan - Chinese women's garments, "Powerful Secrets: An Interview with Pamela Keech" - Costume in theater, costume as art; 128 pages. Paperback in very good condition.…

Small quarto; original red cloth with gilt spinetail device to upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. ix + (i) + 175; colour frontispiece and one colour plate, fold-out map. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and rather edgeworn; trace of foxing to endpapers and edges; loosely inserted "Additions and Corrections to the Check List of the Birds of Southern Rhodesia". Good condition. "The intensive study and collection of birds since the publication of Priest's Birds of Southern Rhodesia 1933-1936, necessitated the compilation of an up-to-date Check List. This work, sponsored by the Rhodesian Ornithological Society, presents the most recent information on distribution, ecology and breeding of all species now known to occur in Southern Rhodesia.".…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd edition . 2nd edition, 1957. Frontispiece in color. Publication of 174 pages. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Second Edition. spine a bit faded. long inscription on front free end page by someone knowledgeable (about birds) in Rhodesia describing notations he has added to the sides of the text explaining where to actually see the birds listed (and to collect them-"R='Royal Game' Protected birds which may not be caught'") etc. 173 pages; 6 3/4 x 9 1/8 ".…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 2nd Edition. Book - very good (light foxing to prelims, a few pencil annotations -Roberts numbers added to some species ), dust jacket - good (worn, repaired tears). With data on ecology and breeding. 2 plates, folding map. Reid-Henry, DM (ilustrador). …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Book has no inscriptions. Original red and gold gilted boards are a little shelf rubbed. Very minor fraying to the spine head. Binding is excellent, tight and square. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. The object of this check list, apart from providing a list of species now known to occur in Southern Rhodesia, is to present in a summarized form as full data as are available to data on the distribution of species within the territory, together with such notes on breeding and habitat etc.,as may be of interest to the user.The book has been signed by the three Authors. There are some marks on the inside cover and the cover is faded with marks on it and torn one side along the spine. Signed by Author.…